Since 2012, the SOURCE project has made it possible to begin to approach the history and heritage of the thermal towns through transmedia. A number of web pltaforms, applications, social media websites, blogging sites, music, design and video websites have been used to enrich the events which took place as part of the European historic thermal towns cultural route. These initiatives have made it possible to live through an immersive experiment in the thermal towns, combining reality and fiction, scientific research, creation and imagination.

 

The website which you are looking through prefigures the second stage of the project, which will take the form of a webdocumentary. Visitors to it can enter and participate merely as spectators and readers, or instead as collaborators who provide information, pictures, text, even proposing and becoming fictional characters. 

 

The purpose of the ‘Water and Cities Diary’ webdocumentary is to tell the story of the thermal towns of the EHTTA network in other ways. The platform is a genuine interactive travelogue, which will give visitors the chance to step into the towns, find out about their heritage and their identities through significant historic figures and anonymous contemporary residents which live in the company of water every day.

 

Four virtual travellers (the characters from the interactive novel ‘At the Sources of Europe’) will accompany those interested in discovering the ‘Water and Cities Diary’. Sent by a mysterious publisher, Valery, Georg, Clara and Charles-Joseph have gleaned, through their journeys through space and time, objects, images, audio and stories which it is now time for them to share with us, with you.